In Search of a Reputation - Bastien-Lepage by Neil Miley (Preface by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The book traces an art student's search for a reputation in the years following the War of 1870. France is in political and financial turmoil, the student struggles to find his way in a changing landscape that insists on art being part of the political progress to ensure the survival of a Republican for ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* Winner of New Zealand's Fiction Book of the Year 2023 A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour. Everywhere, the birds, but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree, and we're staying, and you need to leave and ...Show more
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
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Category: General
'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.'ALI SMITH'Entirely original.'STYLIST'Oyeyemi has mastered the art of bold, expansive storytelling.'IRENOSEN OKOJIE'A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.'INDEPENDENTThe new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oye ...Show more
All the Golden Light by Siobhan O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"1918, Belowla, south coast New South Wales. As the Great War grinds to an end, Adelaide Roberts accompanies her father to a rugged island off the south coast of New South Wales to deliver much-needed supplies. While loss and deprivation has decimated the country, Ada is determined to live a life of pur ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: HB Gift Edition by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Category: General | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? In a s ...Show more
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
$21.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the sa ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
The Counterfeiters by André Gide; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Mint Editions (Reading with Pride) Ser.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
With a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century. Orwell's classic dystopian fiction warns us of our future, and deals with issues that speak to multiple dangers faced by many nations today. Winston Smith is a memb ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
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Category: General
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
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Category: General
THE SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ‘Truly one of the most beautiful stories you’ll ever read’ JOANNA CANNON ‘I laughed, I cried, I sat quietly and thought about what I’d read… a future classic’ CLARE MACKINTOSH This is the story of Isaac and the Egg, a grieving young man and his unforgettable new frie ...Show more